I'm thinking about upgrading my Premiere which is almost full, to a Roamio. According to one Tivo CSR, play-back of my already recorded shows on the Premiere without continuing service on it, would be "limited" which won't allow Rewind or FF through commercials...I was told differently by a second call to another CSR.
I'd like to know if discontinuing service on the Premiere will allow me to play back my recordings without any limitations. Thanks.

Tivo will create a temporary service on a 2nd box for a month or so to allow you to have both an old and a new box active on your account, and then allow you to cancel that 2nd account with no charge. To be honest, I don't remember if I was charged and then refunded or just never charged, but either way, it was no cost, as long as I canceled that extra account within a month.

I just did the same thing. Switched to Roamio. I was able to transfer all of my shows from my old premier. Search for the instructions (I am not allowed to post a link here) You have to have the service to do this. I didn't want service on both, but TiVo customer service switched my old plan to my Roamio, then set me up with a new monthly plan for the old Premiere. It has a 30 day cancellation policy, so they instructed me to cancel once I finished transferring my shows. They told me my $12.99 would be refunded. I just cancelled today, so I don't know if that will happen. But it is worth it to me to get the 40+ hours of shows over to my Roamio.

I just did the same thing. Switched to Roamio. I was able to transfer all of my shows from my old premier. Search for the instructions (I am not allowed to post a link here) You have to have the service to do this. I didn't want service on both, but TiVo customer service switched my old plan to my Roamio, then set me up with a new monthly plan for the old Premiere. It has a 30 day cancellation policy, so they instructed me to cancel once I finished transferring my shows. They told me my $12.99 would be refunded. I just cancelled today, so I don't know if that will happen. But it is worth it to me to get the 40+ hours of shows over to my Roamio.

I see in another thread that the Premiere is going to your daughter. Did you try to get $99 lifetime on the Premiere?? Not sure if they are still doing that.